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What to watch this week

- – James Croot

Peacock (Today, TVNZ+)

Three-part BBC sitcom about a personal trainer in the middle of an identity crisis. Andy (Allan Mustafa) enjoys a world of selfies, bravado and gym membership­s, but when he’s beaten to a promotion by a younger PT, he realises he’s a man out of time and sets out to prove that he’s more than just good looks and a well-curated dating profile. ‘‘Mustafa’s comic turn as a queasy gym bro cements his status as a top purveyor of preening losers,’’ wrote The Guardian’s Jack Seale.

Let the Right One In

(Tomorrow, Neon)

Inspired by the original hit 2004 Swedish novel and subsequent 2008 film, this 10-part horror series centres on Mark (Demia´ n Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor (Madison Taylor Baez), whose lives were changed 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive.

Shantaram (Friday, Apple TV+)

Based on the internatio­nal best-selling 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, this 12-part action crime-drama focuses in on a fugitive named Lin Ford (Charlie Hunnam), as he looks to get lost in the vibrancy and chaos of 1980s Bombay. Alone in an unfamiliar city, he initially struggles to avoid the trouble he’s running from, before complicati­ng his life by falling for the enigmatic Karla (Antonia Desplat).

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